Richard Nixon actually said...

Our success in reducing our involvement in Vietnam by 480,000 men before May 1, 1972, and comparable materiel reductions will help enable us for the first time---to spend more in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare than we spend in the Department of Defense.

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1973.

01/23/1972

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